Seattle Channel Video

With varying degrees of success, Snohomish peoples met the challenges of settler expansion by trying to “work the colonial system,” including navigating the ever-changing bureaucracy of federal policies and the settler economy, in order to stay in their homelands. In this talk, Prof. Josh Reid focuses largely on the period from mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century and discuss topics related to the Treaty of Point Elliott, the formation of initial reservations in western Washington, Indian boarding schools, and the complexities of Coast Salish identities.